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If I set up an all day event and choose "10 minutes" as the remind time, when should I expect to be reminded of the event?
I'm looking for an exact date/time.
Update: I guess they are really sent relative to 12:00 AM... it's just that I'm having a different problem where it's not respecting my time zone settings and instead is using UTC.
They are sent based on 5pm the previous day in your calendar's local time zone.
From Google's page:
Reminders for events that last the entire day ('All Day' events) are based on 5:00 pm the day before the event (according to your current time zone). If you choose to receive your reminder 10 minutes before your "All Day" event on August 24th, you'll be reminded on August 23rd at 4:50 pm.
Your reminder will go off at 11:50pm - i.e. 10 minutes before midnight of the all-day event.
I just tried setting up a an all-day event with an alert to go off 800 minutes before. - i.e. at 10:40am - and it worked.
i.e., the all-day event begins at midnight at the start of that day.
Figure out which calendar the event exists on; look in the list of calendars on the left of the main display, click on the drop-down arrow to the right of the calendar name, click on "Calendar Settings".
You'll see the timezone for that calendar specified; if it's the main calendar for your account, it will be the timezone you've given Calendar for your account (and which will auto-suggest other timezones when you travel).
If you've changed timezones, any sub-calendars you've already created will stick with the timezone you had when you created that sub-calendar - every calendar or sub-calendar has independent settings.
The definition of all-day should manage to start at the start of the day in the timezone in which the calendar exists. There should be a red-line across "today" in one of the grid-views, showing what Calendar thinks the current time is for you.
If you're using VPNs to try to hide your source IP, you might have ended up with a calendar that's, say, in the UK but appears "right" to you, until you try to share events.
Regardless of what google's docs say, the alert comes 10 minutes before midnight the day before the event. I still see this behavior, and so do a lot of other people too http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/calendar/THscLWELKZE
